10 coolest gadgets money can buy

They say money can't buy class. But it can buy enough bleeding-edge tech to fool the neighbours into thinking you're the classiest fucker on the block

Everyone from your driver to your boss can get their hands on the latest tech. For those of you who don’t like being in the same bracket as those regular folks, we’re here to help. *Ancestral dough will help…

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C-Explorer 3

If you have Rs.1,00,00,00,000
Because you’re loaded. Aditya Mittal-loaded

Billed as the world’s “first subsea limousine”, it looks more like something you’d submerge in a bathtub. The little hummer was designed by the Dutch, so you know it’s going to be watertight. And when you’re ferrying it from your yacht to the shore, you’d do well to exercise caution regarding the good people of the lowlands and lay off the rajma that day: No one wants their 15-crore submarine ride to become a Dutch oven.

Falcon Supernova 18k Gold iPhone Diamond

If you have Rs.1,00,00,00,000

You wouldn’t think there’d be much you could do to further luxuriate your iPhone than plate the fucker in precious metal, embed a gemstone and engrave it to your trophy wife. But Falcon has gone a step further to provide security and encryption to its customers. Perfect if you’re Jennifer Lawrence and have 90 crores to blow on a phone. But, given that it’s an iPhone, it’ll still be a pain in the hole to try and move music from your phone to a friend’s iTunes library.

Helicycle

If you have Rs.10,00,00,000

It’s a two-seater. It’s a three-wheeler. And in 10 quick minutes, it unfurls its propeller, rotor and rudder to transform into a gyrocopter, ready to take off – given you have 540ft of open road ahead of you. That’s really all you can use the Helicycle for, but it’s still pretty cool. With a top speed of 180kph, 354km and 1,207km air and road ranges, respectively, and a 4,000ft maximum flying altitude, we’re only $325,000 away from solving all our commuter woes.

Steinway Lyngdorf Model D

If you have Rs.10,00,00,000

When something takes 170 hours of machining and eight weeks to assemble, it ceases to be a tool to listen to music on. This work of art is the flagship system from the company that pioneered high-end acoustic correction systems. So you buy not only a 3-way active speaker system but the assurance that this will play to its optimum in any given room.

Words: Nishant Padhiar

Bloodhound SSC

If you have Rs.10,00,00,000
Because buying your own island is too mainstream

Climbing into a 42-foot-long pencil-shaped rocket and tearing through a desert at 1,609kph requires balls of steel. And British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green was born with them. He already holds the land speed record (1,148kph in 1997) and now he’s out to beat that with the Bloodhound SSC that’s powered by a Rolls-Royce jet engine and a 5-litre Jaguar F-Type R engine. On the day, Green will go from 0 to 1,609kph in just 42 seconds. Let’s hope all goes well because braking at that speed will involve g-forces equivalent to going from 100kph to naught in 1 second. Even steel is malleable under that much pressure, to say nothing of the family jewels.

Tesla Model S

If you have Rs.1,00,00,000
You really want to stick it to your petrol-guzzling Arab business associate

The Tesla Model S instantly dispels any preconceived notions you may have about electric vehicles: It is genuinely fun to drive. With its 310KW motor, it’s shockingly quick off the line and handles better than many conventional saloons. The best bit? Its fantastic range: over 300km on a single charge. The best of its breed.

Words: Hormazd Sorabjee

Samsung 85” UHD TV

If you have Rs. 50,00,000 Fifty Lakh
Because you believe in the maxim show don’t tell

As dudes, we can all agree on one thing: Every inch counts. Optimized for sharpness and contrast, this 4K TV has a Clear Motion Rate (CMR) of 1,200 – which means you won’t lose Lewis Hamilton clipping Nico Rosberg to a blur of metal and burning rubber. This is also the machine that couch potatoes have been dreaming of: It’s got an eco sensor that adjusts image brightness depending on the lighting in the room, a smart remote that lets you control the various devices the TV’s quad core processor is juggling and a hidden mic that sounds off on what to watch next. Soon, it’ll be helping the kids with their homework and completing your million-dollar hostile takeover for you.

Vertu Signature Touch

If you have Rs. 10,00,000 Ten Lakh
Because you’re earning enough to fake like you’re making even more

Whipping out a Vertu in the middle of a room packed with smartphone toting plebeians immediately signals your membership to a rarefied orbit. A red button on the side of the Rs.7,80,000 Signature Touch activates your concierge, which will do everything from chartering a seaplane to booking you the chef’s table at the hottest new restaurant in town. But if it comes down to duelling with a fellow smartphone owner about how well-spec’d your gadget is, it helps to know the Signature Touch packs in a Bang & Olufsen speaker, a 13MP rear snapper, 64GB memory and Android Kit Kat.

Hammacher Commercial Juicer

If you have Rs. 10,00,000

The thing looks like a tennis-ball machine. You half expect it to shoot out the oranges you’ve placed in the chute. Instead, it sucks them in and extracts about 2,500ml of freshly squeezed OJ per minute. It can also purée a full, uncut pineapple. No, we’re not sure what a hitman might use it for.

Fujifilm X Series Globe-Trotter

If you have Rs. 5,00,000 Five Lakh

When your entire raison d’être is made redundant in the biggest, fastest technological shift in history, one thing you could do is slink away and die. But if you’re Fujifilm, you team up with Harrods to sell an exclusive line of retro-styled camera and camera bag combinations. Pricing can edge towards $8,000 to keep those analog-loving hipsters away, but that doesn’t mean heritage must be foregone. And though the captures may be digital, Fuji’s left the “film” in its name. Why? Because in its contemporary form, it’s still super badass, that’s why.